Global Green Growth Knowledge Platform Launches Its Geneva Office

The green economy has been on the global agenda ever since the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012. Many governments are taking political measures to support the transition of their economies into green economies. Only national economies that efficiently use our planet's limited natural resources and pursue green growth will be stable, effective and competitive in the long term.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Bank and the Global Green Growth Institute created the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) in 2012 so that required green growth knowledge and suitable policies could be shared and applied by different countries. The platform is able to collect and process theoretical knowledge and practical experience and make it available to interested countries. In this way, the platform can assist governments in implementing green economic policies.

At the official GGKP office launch on 22 January 2014 in Geneva, Bruno Oberle, Director of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), emphasized how important it is to develop a green economy at both the national and international levels. "We are convinced that the new platform will help build a solid knowledge base for a green economy". Various actors may need the platform not only to coordinate and communicate with each other, but also to identify and utilise potential synergies.

Further information:

FOEN: International green economy initiatives
Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Speech of Bruno Oberle, Director of the FOEN

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Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs